Unit 131, 132, 164 (White River, Grant and Quinn Canyon Ranges)

No NDOW sheet for this sheep group

NDOW publishes no Hunt Information Sheet for desert bighorn on Units 131, 132, 164. That means there's no agency list of canyons, springs or guzzlers to work from, and no note on how the sheep move through the season. Anything more specific than the ground itself would be guesswork, and this page doesn't guess. What we can give you is what lies inside the line.

The Grant, Quinn Canyon and White River ranges

This is a big group with a long string of named ranges. GNIS places the Grant Range and the Quinn Canyon Range inside it, along with the White River Range, the Horse Range, the Mokomoke Mountains, the Duckwater Hills, the Pancake Range and the Rhyolite Hills. The tallest named summits are Currant Mountain, Troy Peak, Duckwater Peak, Mount Hamilton and Timber Mountain, all of them well up in the high country.

With that much ground and no published guidance on where sheep live within it, a tagholder's first job is to narrow the search. NDOW's own biologists for the area are the people to ask before the season. Our area figure, the counties and the named ranges follow below.

The ground NDOW draws for this tag

A bighorn sheep tag for this group is good in units 131, 132 and 164, about 4,564 square miles measured on NDOW's own boundary, in Nye County, White Pine County and Lincoln County. The named ranges inside the line are Mokomoke Mountains, Horse Range, White River Range, Duckwater Hills, Pancake Range and Grant Range. The highest named points are Currant Mountain (11,479 ft), Troy Peak (11,262 ft) and Duckwater Peak (11,151 ft), and the lowest named ground sits near 4,851 feet. We don't print a land-status split for Nevada groups, because the figures we held didn't come from BLM's surface-management data; check BLM's current map for private parcels before you cross a fence or a cattle guard. GNIS names 189 springs inside it, Giroux Springs, Little Warm Spring, South Horse Spring and Collins Spring among them.

US 6, US 50 and Railroad Valley Road

Without an NDOW sheet, there's no agency description of access, vehicle advice or wilderness boundaries for this sheep hunt. The named roads we have for the group are US 6, Railroad Valley Road, State Route 379, State Route 375 and US 50. The sheet that would usually say which side roads lead to sheep country doesn't exist for this species here, so don't assume any particular road gets you close.

Ruth, Ely, Lund and Eureka

The nearest towns in our data are Ruth, Ely, Lund and Eureka. NDOW doesn't describe their services for this hunt, so confirm fuel and supplies before you head out.

Check land status, and any wilderness or other special designation, with the federal land agencies before you plan a route. Nothing on this page can tell you where vehicles are or aren't allowed. The 2025 season below comes from NDOW's hunt data, which is the one agency source that covers this sheep group directly, and the agency's biologists are the best way to fill in the rest.

The 2025 season in NDOW's own numbers

NDOW's 2025 Big Game Hunt Data is the hunter survey behind these figures: who drew, who went, who filled a tag. Success there is NDOW's own figure, successful hunters over hunters afield.

• Any ram, any legal weapon, Sep 15 - Jan 01: 1 resident tag. 1 hunter went afield and 1 filled the tag (100%). Hunters reported 15.0 days afield on average.

Roads in and the nearest towns

The longest named roads through the group are US 6, Railroad Valley Road, NV 379 and NV 375. Our road inventory counts roughly 193 miles of pavement, 279 of gravel and 408 of high-clearance or four-wheel-drive track. The nearest towns are Ruth (26 mi), Ely (30 mi) and Lund (30 mi), measured from the centre of the closest unit in the group.